Gear Change Problem

[GayanR]

Dear all,I recently replaced gearbox bearings on my old Mazda bhalp manual car.They anyhow resurfaced the flywheel too and all issues were fixed.car runs fine.But my issue is that the car used to be running smoother than this when I first brought the car.The gear change pattern has changed a lot.As some of you know I have replaced the clutch on my mazda axela some time ago from the same place and it has also adopted to this gear pattern.I thought It was normal back then.I just want to clarify if this is the normal behavior.

When I first bought the mazda bhalp car It was capable of accelerating powerfully in high gears at lower speeds but now if speed gets bit low I have to shift it to lower gears to accelerate again otherwise car looses power and take some few seconds to gain power again.This was the car that could accelerate a little in first gear and can shift straight to 3rd gear and boom got so much power instantly.But now I have to get upto about 20km speed before even changing it to 2nd gear otherwise the lag and bog occurs.Same issue when in reverse,If I'm traveling about 60km/h in 4th gear if the speed gets low about 50km/h I literary have to shift it to 3rd to re-accelerate.otherwise it takes sometime to gain power again if I carried on accelerating in 4th.But when I first brought this car it had so much instant power that I could carry on accelerating in 4th like nothing happened.It has become annoying because If I was accelerating in 2nd gear at traffic about 15km/h and if its get down to like 10km/h I just have to shift it to first gear to re-accelerate.I have to drive like a racing driver now downshifting and rev matching frequently.Now I have to focus more on changing gears, earlier what ever the gear car had so much power.I now feel like the gears are very long too.I could speed up to like 70km in 2nd gear.

Other than this shifting time change, there is no issues in accelerating.When on correct gear it can accelerate superbly.Strangely my mazda axela has developed the same timing after the clutch replacement.Sadly I couldn't see how it drives originally because the pressure plate was bad at the time I brought it.Pardon me because these are the only manual cars I got to drive so long to notice this.so Just want to know whether this is normal or they messed something up.Tanx

Edited September 13, 2014 by GayanR

[GayanR]

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[The Don]

If there is an issue here it's in terms of the torque the engine produces.

To be frank most cars are not geared to go straight from the first to the third as the first is usually very high, and you shouldn't stay too long in it as it will over rev the engine.

If the engine feels a bit down on power do what is known as a tune up, and check things like ignition timing. Might solve your issue. It doesn't sound like its linked to the gear system at all.